Description: Joe Wurzburger, Staff Fellow at the SOA, shares his views and insights about the health care industry in general and the Health Section's role in particular.

Description: Feature article discussing the findings of a recent CDC report and offering a challenge to actuaries in response to those findings.

Description: The public relations campaign for this year’s Centennial Celebration of the actuarial profession took off strong with the first “Forecast 2000” forum conducted April 25 in Miami. One of the forum's topics was a survey about long term care in the future.

Description: The article considers how actuaries have responded to long term changes in the past and considers how to deal with two changes ion the future: pension provision when bond yields are low and long term care.

Description: Results of HIAA’s 1999 Study of LTCI Contract Reserves by William C. Weller from Long Term Care Newsletter, April 2000, Issue No. 2.

Description: Article discusses the impact of regulation on rate stabilization for long-term care insurance. From Long-Term Care Newsletter, December 2002, Issue No. 7.

Description: Announcement of changes to the LTC Section, and a preview of the articles in the December 2009 issue of Long Term Care News, with topics including Health care reform and LTC vs. Medicaid.

Description: The editor discusses the importance of purchasing a long-term care insurance policy. He also presents highlights of the articles contained in the issue.

Description: Advisers and Consumers have a difficult task in choosing appropriate inflation protection - this article address the challenges and provides suggestions.

Description: This section contains book reviews for, The Financial Dynamics of the Insurance Industry, Calculated Risk: A Provider's Guide to Assessing and Controlling the Financial Risk of Managed Care and Options and the Management of Financial Risk. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1995, Vol. 47.